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The Ziggurat method is an efficient rejection sampling technique for generating one-dimensional normally distributed random numbers. This study proposes the pattern block method, a generalization of the Ziggurat method. The pattern block…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Kensuke Ishitani

We report on experiments with the ziggurat algorithm for generating Gaussian distributed random numbers. The study utilizes our open source Java implementation that was introduced originally for Java 11 at a time when the Java API only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Vincent A. Cicirello

{\em Ziggurat} and {\em Monty Python} are two fast and elegant methods proposed by Marsaglia and Tsang to transform uniform random variables to random variables with normal, exponential and other common probability distributions. While the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Boaz Nadler

We present a modified Ziggurat algorithm that could generate a random number from all unimodal and unbounded PDFs. For PDFs that have unbounded density and/or unbounded support we use a combination of nonlinear mapping function and…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-12 Morteza Jalalvand , Mohammad A. Charsooghi

Pseudo-Random Numbers Generators (PRNGs) are algorithms produced to generate long sequences of statistically uncorrelated numbers, i.e. Pseudo-Random Numbers (PRNs). These numbers are widely employed in mid-level cryptography and in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Luca Pasqualini , Maurizio Parton

A Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) is any algorithm generating a sequence of numbers approximating properties of random numbers. These numbers are widely employed in mid-level cryptography and in software applications. Test suites are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Luca Pasqualini , Maurizio Parton

High quality random numbers are necessary in the modern world. Ranging from encryption keys in cyber security to models and simulations for scientific use: it's important that these random numbers are of high quality and quickly attainable.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Dmitriy Beznosko , Keith Driscoll , Fernando Guadarrama , Steven Mai , Nikolas Thornton

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNG) are a fundamental element of many security algorithms. We introduce a novel approach to their implementation, by proposing the use of generative adversarial networks (GAN) to train a neural network to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Marcello De Bernardi , MHR Khouzani , Pasquale Malacaria

The pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs), sampling algorithms, and algorithms for generating random integers in some common statistical packages and programming languages are unnecessarily inaccurate, by an amount that may matter for…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-29 Philip B. Stark , Kellie Ottoboni

This work considers the deployment of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) on graphics processing units (GPUs), developing an approach based on the xorgens generator to rapidly produce pseudo-random numbers of high statistical quality.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Nimalan Nandapalan , Richard P. Brent , Lawrence M. Murray , Alistair Rendell

Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are essential in a wide range of applications, from cryptography to statistical simulations and optimization algorithms. While uniform randomness is crucial for security-critical areas like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jianan Wu , Ahmet Yusuf Salim , Eslam Elmitwalli , Selçuk Köse , Zeljko Ignjatovic

The aim of this paper is to present a new design for a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) that is cryptographically secure, passes all of the usual statistical tests referenced in the literature and hence generates high quality random…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Juan Di Mauro , Eduardo Salazar , Hugo D. Scolnik

Many Random Number Generators (RNG) are available nowadays; they are divided in two categories, hardware RNG, that provide "true" random numbers, and algorithmic RNG, that generate pseudo random numbers (PRNG). Both types usually generate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Andrea C. G. Mennucci

Rejection sampling is a popular method used to generate numbers that follow some given distribution. We study the use of this method to generate random numbers in the unit interval from increasing probability density functions. We focus on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Louis-Roy Langevin , Alex Waese-Perlman

In this paper, a new pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) based on chaotic iterations is proposed. This method also combines the digits of two XORshifts PRNGs. The statistical properties of this new generator are improved: the generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang , Jacques M. Bahi

We introduce the Romu family of pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) which combines the nonlinear operation of rotation with the linear operations of multiplication and (optionally) addition. Compared to conventional linear-only PRNGs,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Mark A. Overton

Rejection sampling is a technique for sampling from difficult distributions. However, its use is limited due to a high rejection rate. Common adaptive rejection sampling methods either work only for very specific distributions or without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-27 Akram Erraqabi , Michal Valko , Alexandra Carpentier , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard

A sliding-window algorithm of window size $t$ is an algorithm whose current operation depends solely on the last $t$ symbols read. We construct pseudorandom generators (PRGs) for low-space randomized sliding-window algorithms that have…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Augusto Modanese

In this paper, a new pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) based on the logistic map has been proposed. To prevent the system to fall into short period orbits as well as increasing the randomness of the generated sequences, the proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-29 Miguel Garcia-Bosque , Adrián Pérez-Resa , Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta , Concepción Aldea , Santiago Celma

With the widespread use of communication technologies, cryptosystems are therefore critical to guarantee security over open networks as the Internet. Pseudo-random number generators (PRNGs) are fundamental in cryptosystems and information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Jacques M. Bahi , Jean-François Couchot , Christophe Guyeux , Qianxue Wang
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